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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#6 Governors Island

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2008

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

New York's most under-appreciated treasure gets the Bowery Boys treatment. It's Governors Island: a fort, a small town, a prison and a Burger King ... all bought for one dollar. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is episode six of The Bowery Boys.

0:04.1

Hello, Govna.

0:05.7

Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.

0:07.2

Hey!

0:22.2

Hello there, and welcome to The Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young.

0:25.5

And this is Tom Myers.

0:27.0

Thank you for tuning in to us once again this week for episode six of The Bowery Boys,

0:33.0

which is about Govna's Island.

0:35.2

This is, it doesn't sound like the sexiest topic in the world,

0:38.2

but by the end of the episode, you'll be turned on.

0:41.7

I'm a share. Stay tuned.

0:43.4

Before we get into that, I just wanted to let you guys know.

0:45.5

A lot of you have already visited the website.

0:47.8

It's bowryboyspodcast.com.

0:50.8

And we have a lot of stuff on there.

0:52.6

It's updated two or three times each a day.

0:55.2

Anything you can basically call near history from bizarre,

0:59.2

Da Vinci code-esque archaeological digs downtown

1:02.6

to all the nightclubs in the 70s,

1:04.3

anything that we gigs could consider history.

1:06.7

I loved your first post this morning, actually, Greg,

1:09.4

about the bizarre triangles found around the city.

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